---
title: Handshakes Overview
sidebarTitle: Overview
description: Overview of the different handshakes available in Chonkie
icon: "handshake"
iconType: "solid"
---
Handshakes allow you to easily connect Chonkie to a vector database of your choice.
Embed your chunks and write them to your database in just a few lines of code.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card
    title="ChromaDB Handshake"
    icon="/assets/chroma-icon.svg"
    href="/python-sdk/handshakes/chroma-handshake"
  >
  Connect Chonkie to your ephemeral or persistent ChromaDB instance
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Turbopuffer Handshake"
    icon="/assets/turbopuffer.svg"
    href="/python-sdk/handshakes/turbopuffer-handshake"
  >
  Connect Chonkie to your Turbopuffer database
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Qdrant Handshake"
    icon="/assets/qdrant-logo.svg"
    href="/python-sdk/handshakes/qdrant-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Qdrant database
  </Card>
  <Card
  title="Pinecone Handshake"
  icon="/assets/pinecone.png"
  href="/python-sdk/handshakes/pinecone-handshake"
>
  Connect Chonkie to your Pinecone index
</Card>
  <Card
    title="MongoDB Handshake"
    icon="/assets/mongodb.svg"
    href="/python-sdk/handshakes/mongodb-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your MongoDB collection
  </Card>
<Card
  title="Pgvector Handshake"
  icon="/assets/pgvector.png"
  href="/python-sdk/handshakes/pgvector-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Pgvector database
  </Card>
  <Card
  title="Weaviate Handshake"
  icon="/assets/weaviate.png"
  href="/python-sdk/handshakes/weaviate-handshake"
  >
    Connect Chonkie to your Weaviate database
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
